The second 1 oz silver coin in the Royal Canadian Mint’s new O Canada series focusing on iconic Canadian images, this beautiful coin celebrates the rich history and symbolism associated with the polar bear.
The reverse design by Canadian artist Pierre Leduc presents an outer polished border framing an inner field engraved with the image of a mother polar bear playing with her two young cubs on a frozen Arctic hillside. The massive mother sits patiently on her hindquarters in a snowdrift as one cavorting cub, standing on its hind legs, paws at her left arm. She turns to her cub, the two almost nose-to-nose, as though in good humour. In front of her, the other cub, viewed from its left side, stands on all fours surveying its frozen home, perhaps readying itself for a game of ice sliding. Above the bears and to the right side of the image rises a large snowdrift topped by two snow-covered trees.
Diameter: 38mm Weight: 31.39g Material: Silver Fineness: 0.9999 Bullion Weight: 1 Troy Ounces
Obverse: Queen Elizabeth II Reverse: Mother Polar Bear playing with two cubs Finish: Proof Series: O Canada Quantity Produced: 8500 Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II Theme(s): Iconic Canadian Images
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